September 17, 2020

Does urban nature make us healthy and happy? – A short report from the STUPS project: Urban nature supports psychological well-being

The anchoring effect using the example of Dresden's urban nature If you want to observe a psychological phenomenon in real life, we recommend a small experiment on the anchoring effect. All you have to do is ask a small group of people a question: How many allotment garden associations are there in Dresden? One person from the group makes the first estimate (e.g. 35 associations) and...
Categories Generally/City and country
September 9, 2020

Open Workshop “Educational media technology and its inclusive potential”

Not only with the recent corona pandemic the inclusive potential of digital media has been considered as innovative in the light of supporting accessibility and heterogeneity in any educational context. Formal education, namely general and higher education, does have a further educational mandate and is encouraged to submit innovative offers for social participation. Teaching at school and university – so...
Categories Higher Education
July 20, 2020

Dresden from historical perspectives – a 4D city model for virtual exploration

Have you ever wondered how (urban) photography has changed over time? For example, was the Kronentor photographed more often or from different perspectives at the beginning of the 20th century than during the GDR era? You can find answers to these questions here: The junior research group HistStadt4D, a group of young scientists from the TU Dresden and the University of Würzburg, is developing...
Categories Digital research tools
July 7, 2020

Onboarding by Gamification – the study assistance system gOPAL breaks new ground in supporting the initial study phase

Willi is new to the TU Dresden. He is a freshman at the Faculty of Economics and, upon entering the university, he has immersed himself in a new world that is completely different to school. Examination regulations, internships, OPAL, Schumann Building, student council and SLUB are just a few things that he still has to understand and learn - and that's in addition to...
Categories Higher Education
June 5, 2020

Social Media in Studies – the Student Life Cycle

What are the possibilities for the effective use of social media in studies? Although learning always takes place in social communities, it is only recently that higher education teaching has become more focused on the use of media in this social dimension. It is undoubtedly necessary and important to understand what support can look like in higher education teaching and for university teachers. But although...
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11 May 2020

From the analogue toilet paper roll to the digital learning game – how creative collaboration can also be achieved from the home office

As part of the ESF-funded EFA project, the project team at the Media Center of the TU Dresden is developing a digital learning game for occupational health and safety in the social services sector. A wide variety of creative methods, tools and workflows are used in the individual development phases. Above all, the conception phase, in which learning content is translated into game scenarios and typical game elements such as a game story are also included...
Categories Vocational training Comments: 0
27 April 2020

The online report book – supporting learning location cooperation between companies, vocational schools and inter-company training centres online

For many years, the digitalization of vocational training was viewed rather hesitantly. Problems such as cooperation between learning locations repeatedly raised questions about how cooperation could be better supported. Especially in the current situation, where a lot revolves around Corona and the possibilities of digital communication, the question arises as to how we can also support the learning and training process in vocational training...
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16.04.2020

Enabling scalable individual support and supervision for students – development of design concepts in the tech4comp project

In the current situation, the digitization of courses must be done ad hoc and raises many fundamental questions: How do students get access to the materials? How can teachers and students communicate securely with each other? How can students exchange ideas? There are already a number of tools available for this purpose that are currently being intensively tested, used and...
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April 1, 2020

Digitalization of education – the Media Center’s research topic for over 15 years. What can we use from this now?

The Media Center of the TU Dresden has been conducting research and development projects on topics related to digitally supported teaching, learning and research in almost all educational sectors for over 15 years in third-party funded research and development projects. The current situation shows how important and in demand digital educational infrastructures and quickly implementable didactic concepts are. Both topics are central to our research projects. Therefore, with this article we would like to present a series of...
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